Update Time and Growing Pains (Werewolf Transformation)

Time for the June update! My apologies for having kept everyone waiting. To be honest, it has gotten harder for me to find material that makes the grade, but fortunately Daymon and many of our readers have stepped up to keep the blog running. And speaking of updates, I should note that Shadowlord Inc. has just updated too. As for this site, we have 10 new items, which we hope you will enjoy:

Readers have heard me rave twice about Growing Pains, the Danish animated short about a teenaged boy who turns into a werewolf whenever he gets aroused. The film has been available for rental and I've encouraged folks to view it that way, but recently Daymon and I discovered it's been freely available on Vimeo for two years. The upload looks like it was done by someone affiliated with the film and it's been online for a while, so we assume it's legitimate. Here is the link. The transformations occur at the 4:21, 11:17, 13:08, and 17:15 (note: these times refer to an older video link that we had to replace--they might not correspond exactly to the new video).

As I wrote a few years ago, Growing Pains "is funny, unsettling, kinky, and has something valuable to say about the harm of sexual repression and the need to release one's inner beast. Werewolves have often been seen as metaphors for out-of-control sexual urges, puberty, and even erections (after all, in transformation scenes the body grows like a monstrous penis). Many werewolf films have tried to make use of those metaphors--Growing Pains is the first to successfully employ all of them."